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Grant US12581957B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

RAYTHEON COMPANY

Inventors

Patrick M. Sain, William Paul Posey

Abstract

A physically unclonable function (PUF) device includes capacitor array couple to an electronic device. The capacitor array includes a plurality of parallel conductive elements coupled to a dielectric material having a spatially varying permittivity to define array of randomly valued capacitors.

CPC Classifications

H01L 23/573 H01L 23/481 H01L 23/5223 H01L 23/5226 H04L 9/3278 H04L 63/0876 G06F 21/73

Filing Date

2021-04-19

Application No.

17234402

Claims

6